Presidents of Nicaragua and Venezuela Praise Each Other

The Sandinistas, members of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), on Tuesday celebrated the 37th anniversary of the revolution that ended the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua in festivities marked by the support of the country’s president Daniel Ortega to his Venezuelan ally and counterpart Nicolas Maduro, one of his invitees. Ortega, who is running for re-election in the November elections in Nicaragua, criticized the US for allegedly being “obsessed” with overthrowing Maduro in a speech before thousands of people at the Plaza de la Fe San Juan Pablo II square in Managua. “The enemy knows that defeating Venezuela, destroying Venezuela,…